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"I doubt he is arrogant enough for that," Lanfear replied smoothly "He can see where it took Ishamael And that is the point A point Graendal raised Once ere thirteen, immortal Now four are dead, and one has betrayed us We four are all who h"

"Are you certain Ase to take a chance before Where did he find the heart to join a lost cause?"

Lanfear’s brief sht would set him above the rest of us And when his choice becae for hier" The scar"If you were close enough to him to know all of this, why did you leave him alive? You could have killed him before he knew you were there"

"I a back, and there are usually other, more profitable ways Besides, to put it in terms you would understand, I did not want to launch a frontal assault against superior forces"

"Is he really so strong?" Rahvin asked quietly "This Rand al’Thor Could he have overwhelmed you, facetoface?" Not that he hih Graendal would likely link with Lanfear if either of the men tried For thatwith the Power right that htest suspicion of either man Or of each other But this farmboy An untrained shepherd! Untrained unless As

"He is Lews Therin Telamon reborn," Lanfear said just as softly, "and Lews Therin was as strong as any" Sammael absently rubbed the scar across his face; it had been Lews Therin who gave it to hi of the World, before the Great Lord was iot

"Well," Graendal put in, "have we coave a displeased start The two servants were frozen still-- or again, rather Sammael muttered in his beard

"If this Rand al’Thor really is Lews Therin Tela herself on the man’s back where he crouched on all fours, "I ale him into your bed, Lanfear Or would it be so easy? I seem to remember Lews Therin led you by the nose, not the other way around Squelched your little tantru to fetch his wine, in a " She set her oine on the tray, held out rigidly by the sightlessly kneeling woman "You were so obsessed with hi’"

Lanfear’s dark eyes glittered for a ained control of herself "He may be Lews Therin reborn, but he is not Lews Therin hi as if it were all a joke "It may well be that, as many believe, all are born and reborn as the Wheel turns, but nothing like this has ever happened that I have read A specificto prophecy Who knohat he is?"

Lanfear gave a disparaging smirk "I have observed him closely He is no more than the shepherd he seems, still more naive than not" Scorn faded to seriousness "But now he has Asmodean, weak ally as he is And even before As hiruffly He wove flows of Air to drag a chair across the carpet and spraith his boots crossed at the ankle and one arm over the low, carved back Anyone who believed he was at ease was a fool; Sa they could take him by surprise "More for the rest of us on the Day of Return Or do you think he ht win Tarmon Gai’don, Lanfear? Even if he stiffens Asmodean’s backbone, he has no Hundred Companions this tiuish hiave him bristled with contempt "How many of us will be alive when the Great Lord is freed at last? Four gone already Will he coht like that You could finally get rid of that scar if you defeated hiet How many times did you face him in the War of Power? Did you ever win? I cannot seem to reht be you He is reluctant to hurt women for some reason, but you won’t even be able to make Asmodean’s choice You cannot teach him any more than a stone could Unless he decides to keep you as a pet That would be a change for you, would it not? Instead of deciding which of your pretties pleases you best, you could learn to please"

Graendal’s face contorted, and Rahvin prepared to shield hiht hurl at one another, prepared to Travel at even a whiff of balefire Then he sensed Sa the Power, sensed a difference in it -- Sae -- and bent to grab the other rily, but theat them now, not each other Neither could knohat had al had passed between Rahvin and Sammael, and suspicion lit their eyes

"I want to hear what Lanfear has to say" He did not look at Sammael, but meant it for hihten us" Saht have been a nod or runtleh a little fright could not hurt" Lanfear’s dark eyes still held distrust, but her voice was as clear as still water "Ishamael tried to control him and failed, tried to kill hi and fear, and bullying does not ith Rand al’Thor"

"Ishamael was more than halfmad," Sammael muttered, "and less than halfhuman"

"Is that e are?" Graendal arched an eyebrow "Merely hu er down the cheek of the wo beside her "A neill have to be created to describe us"

"Whatever we are," Lanfear said, "we can succeed where Ishahtly forward, as if to force the words on them Lanfear seldo